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Despite the resulting market turbulence, the South African rand displayed surprising resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wide fluctuations in international oil prices caused local fuel price recoveries to swing from a small over-recovery to a sizeable under-recovery, ultimately leading to increases at the pumps for most fuel types.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-official-july-fuel-adjustments\">Official July fuel adjustments:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><td><strong>Fuel Type<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Price Change<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Petrol 93<\/td><td>Increase of 55 cents per litre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Petrol 95<\/td><td>Increase of 52 cents per litre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Diesel 0.05% (wholesale)<\/td><td>Increase of 82 cents per litre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Diesel 0.005% (wholesale)<\/td><td>Increase of 84 cents per litre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Illuminating Paraffin (wholesale)<\/td><td>Increase of 67 cents per litre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>LPGAS<\/td><td>Decrease of 57 cents per kg<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>LPGAS (Western Cape)<\/td><td>Increase of 190 cents per litre<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Local fuel prices in South Africa are predominantly influenced by international product prices, which in turn are determined by global oil prices and the rand\/dollar exchange rate. 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